How to force ntfs-3g mounting

Sometimes, when a ntfs partition is open, or partially corrupted, or it had been bad closed, if you try to mount it, you'll find an error message telling you that it's impossible to mount.

Today, I have to help a friend with her computer, wich was infected by a virus or a trojan... and she can't access her windows partition.

The first I've done is using an Ubuntu Live CD (it's always on my bag :P) to mount her Windows partition and moving her files to another hard drive. But  always got that error message. Finally I've typed this command on the Terminal, et voilà:

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$sudo mkdir /media/HDD
$sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/HDD -o force
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This only forces the ntfs partition mounting by using the ntfs-3g driver, and it had worked great.

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